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If Earth has 150,100,000 km^2 of
land area, how much land area is included in the
biodiversity hotspots?
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A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened by human habitation.[1][2]

A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened by human habitation.[1][2]Norman Myers wrote about the concept in two articles in “The Environmentalist” (1988),[3] and 1990[4] revised after thorough analysis by Myers and others “Hotspots: Earth’s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions”[5] and a paper published in the journal Nature.[6]

A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened by human habitation.[1][2]Norman Myers wrote about the concept in two articles in “The Environmentalist” (1988),[3] and 1990[4] revised after thorough analysis by Myers and others “Hotspots: Earth’s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions”[5] and a paper published in the journal Nature.[6]To qualify as a biodiversity hotspot on Myers 2000 edition of the hotspot-map, a region must meet two strict criteria: it must contain at least 0.5% or 1,500 species of vascular plants as endemics, and it has to have lost at least 70% of its primary vegetation.[6] Around the world, 36 areas qualify under this definition.[7] These sites support nearly 60% of the world's plant, bird, mammal, reptile, and amphibian species, with a very high share of those species as endemics. Some of these hotspots support up to 15,000 endemic plant species and some have lost up to 95% of their natural habitat.[7]

A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened by human habitation.[1][2]Norman Myers wrote about the concept in two articles in “The Environmentalist” (1988),[3] and 1990[4] revised after thorough analysis by Myers and others “Hotspots: Earth’s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions”[5] and a paper published in the journal Nature.[6]To qualify as a biodiversity hotspot on Myers 2000 edition of the hotspot-map, a region must meet two strict criteria: it must contain at least 0.5% or 1,500 species of vascular plants as endemics, and it has to have lost at least 70% of its primary vegetation.[6] Around the world, 36 areas qualify under this definition.[7] These sites support nearly 60% of the world's plant, bird, mammal, reptile, and amphibian species, with a very high share of those species as endemics. Some of these hotspots support up to 15,000 endemic plant species and some have lost up to 95% of their natural habitat.[7]Biodiversity hotspots host their diverse ecosystems on just 2.4% of the planet's surface,[2] however, the area defined as hotspots covers a much larger proportion of the land. The original 25 hotspots covered 11.8% of the land surface area of the Earth.[1] Overall, the current hotspots cover more than 15.7% of the land surface area, but have lost around 85% of their habitat.[8] This loss of habitat explains why approximately 60% of the world's terrestrial life lives on only 2.4% of the land surface area.

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